BrightCom to provide Bluetooth connectivity for major cellular operator in Europe

6/3/2002 - BrightCom Technologies Ltd. (BrightCom) announced today that Bio-Guard Ltd., a subsidiary of Starten Ltd., chose the BrightCom IntelliBLUE BIC2101 Application Processor to provide secure Bluetooth connectivity for its biometric fingerprint sensor encapsulated with an embedded encryption module. Although basic security algorithms are included in the Bluetooth standard, Bio-Guard wished to add its own security algorithms as well. The BrightCom concept of embedded BrightAPIs™ and applications on a single Bluetooth chip allowed for the additional security algorithms without impacting the system bill of materials.